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Alex Boone note

Check this out, a new student-authored note from William and Mary third-year law student Alex Boone, “The Tide’s Coming In: A New Case for Beachfront Property Rights in South Carolina,” 47 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 383 (2023).

Here’s the Abstract:

Part I of this Note explores the scientific data

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Come join us on Thursday, April 27, 2023, from 5-7pm, downtown Honolulu, to celebrate the retirement of Professor David L. Callies from the University of Hawaii Law School.

Join U.H. Law School Dean Camille Nelson, Professor Callies’ colleagues, his students (present and former), the Hawaii legal community, and family and friends as we honor

Here’s the latest SCOTUS cert petition, filed by our law firm colleagues Dave Breemer and Deborah LaFetra. Because this is one of ours, we won’t be commenting, but leave it to you to digest it yourself.

Here’s the Question Presented:

Frank and Rachel Revere and David and Judith Kagan (Owners) own a duplex in

As we wrote up here, national zoning and planning expert Nolan Gray joined our U. Hawaii Land Use class (and the public) last week for a talk about whether zoning is an impediment to affordable housing in Hawaii.

Thank you to Grassroot Institute of Hawaii for recording the talk, as well as making Mr.

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Earlier this week, planner M. Nolan Gray, author of the new book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It” (Island Press 2022) joined our Land Use class at the University of Hawaii Law School to talk

“But we had to eat.”

So begins the Washington Supreme Court’s opinion in Washington Food Industry Ass’n v. City of Seattle, No. 99771-3 (Feb. 9, 2023), wherein the court held that a takings challenge to Seattle’s ordinance requiring Co-19 combat pay for food delivery workers may proceed. 

There’s a lot in the opinion about

40th ALI-CLE

We were eagerly anticipating 40th American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. The 2022 Conference in Scottsdale was one of the first meetings where everyone was back in-person (and was a smashing success), but that conference was early in the game so not everyone could or would attend. But in the past

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Land users: come join us online for the 36th Annual Land Use Institute. Yes, the venerable program is back again, with the usual line up of dirt law experts covering all you need to know and bringing you up to speed on the latest. Here’s the description of the program:

This Annual Land Use Institute

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Join our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Jon Houghton, Daniel Woislaw, Kady Valois, and Sam Spiegelman (moderating) tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET for a free webinar, “Emerging Issues in Property Rights.”

Here’s the agenda:

Protecting private property rights has been at the heart of PLF’s

You remember, don’t you? In the early days of the Co-19 epidemic, government and public health authorities were scrambling to do something … sometimes anything! … to respond.

Dare County, North Carolina might have been one of those local governments that went maybe just a bit too far in the precaution vs effectiveness departments: